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Akhter, Shahnaz, Elias, Juanita and Rai, Shirin M. (2022) 'Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics.' Social Politics, 29 (4). pp. 1121-1143.

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Abstract

This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian older women with care needs, conducted during the first period of UK national lockdown in 2020. This was a pilot study, focusing on the challenges faced in accessing formal and informal care during this period of the pandemic. The experiences, fears, and vulnerabilities that came through in the interviews are located within a broader analysis of the racialized care crisis—one that reveals the long-term harms that austerity, including “austerity Islamophobia,” generated for these older women and their families as they struggled to provide and access un/paid care.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: COVID-19, care, aging, caring, race, Islamophobia, austerity, discrimination, violence
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Politics & International Studies
Subjects: J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
ISSN: 10724745
Copyright Statement: Open Access
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac035
Date Deposited: 14 Nov 2022 17:56
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38307
Funders: Other

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